AMBIGUOUS JANUS OF MODERN DEMOCRACY

Volodymyr V. Khmil

doi:10.15802/ampr2016/72228

Authors

Volodymyr V. Khmil Dnipropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4710-6681

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15802/ampr2016/72228

Keywords:

society, democracy, human being, social entropy, European culture

Abstract

Purpose. The purpose of the research is to analyze ambiguous concept of democracy as a phenomenon of political and social formation based on political and instrumental approach. As a result, some deep fundamentals of human social existence and values as social life basis are blurred. Task. The task of this investigation is to reveal the concept of democracy in its invariative philosophical meaning and find the consequences of global social transformations towards social entropy. Methods of investigation. To implement the task an activity approach has been used with further possibility to single out two approaches - politological and philosophical. The focus on democracy from philosophic point of view makes possible to anticipate negative entropic processes that lead to future ambiguity. Subject matter. Chaotic social processes can result in ruined family, spiritual, legal and moral formations. Regulatory and legal paradigms are becoming less effective and entail disintegration of spiritual and value constituents of worldview causing necessary conditions for social entropy. Originality and Findings. Possible threats for human freedom that hinder the way to targeted prospects of mankind have been considered in the paper. Thus, taking into account all positive aspects of democracy, it is simultaneously becoming the tool of continuous differentiation of society into tiny autonomous communities similar to nomadic atomization of society. The concept based on moral substantial existence basis as in “axis time” by K. Jaspers that can prevent social entropy resulting in world anthropologic catastrophes has been grounded in the present research.

Author Biography

Volodymyr V. Khmil, Dnipropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan

Khmil Volodymyr V. was born in 1947, Ukraine. Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, the Head of Philosophy Department, DNURT (Dnipropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan). Doctoral thesis "The Dilemma of etatism and antietatism in modern French philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century (historical and philosophical analysis)" is dedicated to new and unexplored phenomenon in the political life of the European countries, a "non-political state". It has been developed in further series of scientific papers. An author of 90 scientific papers, including "The crisis in the States: a comparative analysis of France 70's and Ukraine 90's (1995); "State and Society: brinks of Freedom "(1998); "The problem of interaction between the state and society as a structuralistic conception of L. Althusser and R. Fossaera ", (1999); "Orthodoxy in Ukraine and the problem of the formation of the democratic structure", (2005); "The problem of the formation of ideological priorities in modern society", (2010); "Philosophy in the context of modern global processes ",(2009); "Phenomenology of gender", (2011); "Entropy "virus" of democracy "(2012). An expert on philosophy history, studies problems of political philosophy, anthropology, post-modernism. University of Cologne, Philosophy Department, trainee job in 2002.

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